Reason: Film Screening with Anand Patwardhan

The South Asian Studies Program is pleased to welcome Anand Patwardhan to campus for a screening of his most recent film, Reason, fresh off its world premier at the Toronto International Film Festival and receipt of Best Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival.

Divided into eight chapters, Reason sets out to chart what Patwardhan sees as India's slide away from the complex tumult of a secular democracy towards hardening divisions of power, caste, and religious belief — lines that are enforced increasingly by violence.